EP0114737B1 - Capacitively coupled magnetic flowmeter - Google Patents
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- This invention relates generally to magnetic flowmeters, and in particular to capacitance type magnetic flowmeters wherein the measurement electrodes do not contact the fluid whose flow rate is to be measured.
- Electrodes are electrically insulated from the fluid to be measured by a dielectric liner. Thus a capacitor is formed between the conductive fluid and each of the electrodes.
- Patent US-A-3,839,912 discloses a magnetic flowmeter system with measuring electrodes that are capacitively coupled to the fluid.
- the flow tube of the system is adapted to receive an insertable probe section formed of dielectric material having an integral electrode assembly.
- a high-impedance amplifier Positioned within this assembly and connected to the measuring electrode is a high-impedance amplifier for receiving the flow induced voltages. .
- These flow related signals result from the interaction of an a-c magnetic field established across the flow tube and the flowing conductive fluid that induces an a-c voltage at the electrodes through the capacitive coupling with the fluid.
- the input impedance of the amplifier is kept extremely high so that the flow induced voltage may be suitably amplified by the amplifier to provide an output signal substantially proportional to the flow rate.
- Patent US-A-3,999,443 discloses another variation of a capacitance type magnetic flowmeter system wherein the measuring electrodes are imbedded within the dielectric liner of a flow tube mounted within the flow stream.
- This disclosure is primarily concerned with minimizing spurious voltages produced during instrument operation, i.e., stray capacitance-coupled voltages and induced loop voltages in the input leads.
- spurious voltages from the first source are minimized by a combination of electrostatic shielding and low-frequency excitation of the magnitic field, while induced loop voltages are taken into account by varying the magnetic field in accordance with a square-wave excitation.
- the present invention overcomes the foregoing difficulties associated with capacitively coupled magnetic flowmeters by providing a magnetic flowmeter for measuring the flow rate of a flowing fluid comprising a .flow conduit haying a dielectric portion through which a fluid flows whose rate of flow is to be determined;
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a magnetic flowmeter system 8 built in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention which includes a primary measurement element 10 with an associated magnetic field driver circuit 11 and electronic circuity for detecting the flow signal and converting it to a usable output.
- a flow tube 12 adapted to be inserted into a piping system carrying fluid whose rate of flow is to be determined, a dielectric liner 13 coating the interior of the flow tube, and a pair of measurement electrodes 14, 15 imbedded within the liner so as not to be in contact with the process fluid.
- Mounted on the outside of the flow tube are a pair of field coils 16, 17 positioned transversely with respect to the measurement electrodes with an iron core 19 (see Fig. 2) linking the two field coils.
- a flux pickup coil 18 is aligned with the field coil 16 to encompass the flux passing through the flow tube.
- the magnetic field driver circuit is connected directly to the field coils and provides the field excitation energy.
- the detection circuitry 20 consists of a preamplifier 21 connected to the electrodes 14, 15, a demodulator 22 receiving the amplified measurement signal, an analog-to-digital converter 24 which supplies to a display unit 25 a digital output signal that is representative of the flow signal. Also included as part of the signal processing electronics is a sequence controller 26 that provides the necessary timing and wave forms to operate the system.
- Fig. 2 provides in perspective view details of the magnetic flowmeter primary element 10.
- the flow tube 12 terminates in respective flanged end connections 27, 28 that facilitate mounting within a piping system of the type having conducting contacts with the fluid that are located within industrial process plants.
- the flanged end connections also serve as a convenient anchor point for the dielectric liner 13.
- the measurement electrodes 14, 15 imbedded within the liner are positioned at right angles to the longitudinal flow axis of the flow tube. Additionally these electrodes are of relatively large surface area to more effectively sense the flow induced signals.
- a field cover surrounds the fow tube to protect the field coils 16, 17 which are mounted atop the flow tube from the often hostile process environment.
- the flux pickup coil 18 is similarly mounted on the flow tube. This coil like the field coils is thus perpendicular both to the flow axis and the measurement electrodes. It will be aapreciated that this arrangement of measurement electrodes and coils will in response to the flow of a conductive fluid through the flow tube generate a voltage signal that is capacitively coupled to the detection circuitry 20 by the positioning of the dielectric liner between the process fluid and the electrodes.
- the sequence controller 26 which employs digital counters and other well known circuitry, generates a train of square waves at frequencies that are sub-multiplies of the 60 Hz a-c line frequency.
- a 7.5 Hz square wave voltage generated by the sequence controller and seving as the primary system clock is supplied after passing through a dropping resistor 30 to the inverting terminal of a high gain operational amplifier 31.
- the amplifier is configured such that the voltage at the inverting terminal is driven to essentially zero volts by a feedback network composed of the flux pickup coil 18, a buffer amplifier 32 and an output resistor 33.
- the capacitor and resistor network 34 around the operational amplifier 31 offsets long- term drift effects.
- the operational amplifier 31 and associated feedback circuitry compares the voltage sensed by the flux pickup coil 18 with the input voltage from the sequence controller 26, and thus the voltage on the flux coil is forced to track the square wave input from the sequence controller. Since the flux coil induced voltage is a square wave that is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic field (dB/dt) passing through the flow tube, the output current of the amplifier 31 (i.e., the magnetic field current that energizes the field coils 16, 17 to produce a corresponding magnetic field will necessarily be a triangular wave form with a frequency of 7.5 Hz. This relationship is depicted by the wave forms of Figs. 6A, 6B and 6C. Details of the operation and advantages of providing a separate reference coil to sense a time varying magnetic flux are given in U.S. Patent No. 3,433,066.
- an important aspect of the present invention involves the measurement of a current signal proportional to the rate of change of the induced voltage signal produced by the electrodes. This is accomplished by the preamplifier/ demodulator circuit shown in detail in Fig. 4 which operates as a low-impedance current-to- voltage converter.
- the time rate of change of the magnetic field (dB/dt) and necessarily the flow signal current will be a square wave.
- the electrode capacitance Since the flow signal current and the time rate of change of the magnetic field are measurable quantities while the flow tube diameter is a constant, in order to determine the fluid velocity the electrode capacitance must be known.
- This capacitance measurement can be taken into account in various ways. For example, the capacitance attributed to having the measurement electrodes buried in the liner can be initially measured during manufacture and assumed to remain constant under process flow conditions. However, this approach has the drawback of not taking into account changes in capacitance due to temperature effects and changes in liner thickness either due to fouling or wear. It is also possible to make the initial capacitance measurement and provide temperature compensation by comparing the dielectric of the liner material at measured temperature to the dielectric at a reference temperature (e.g., 25°C).
- a reference temperature e.g. 25°C
- electrode capacitance is measured on-line, preferably at the same time the flow signal current measurement is being made.
- the term "on-line measurement" is to be construed in its broadest sense to include an attendant measure of the electrode capacitance while the flowmeter system is operational with fluid flowing therethrough.
- the concurrent capacitance and flow signal measurement is attained without any interference between the two and, importantly, in a manner that makes the overall measurement system insensitive to stray capacitance and other leakage voltages.
- the two measurements involved are the above described flow signal current (i.e., proportional to flow velocity, the rate of change of the magnetic field and electrode capacitance) and the measurement of a second current proportional to the same electrode capacitance and a generated rate of change of voltage that is controlled to be proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic field.
- the ratio of these two measured currents yields an output signal indicative of the flow velocity that is independent of the rate of change of the magnetic field and the electrode capacitance.
- a pair of operational amplifiers 40A, 40B connected in a differential current-sensing mode constitute the low-impedance pre-amplifier 21 of the detection circuitry 20.
- the flow tube 12 surrounding the liner 13 and the measurement electrodes 14, 15 is stainless steel and thus forms an electrically conducting shell 60 which is connected directly to system ground at node 42.
- the shields of input leads 41A, 41 B of the amplifiers 40A, 40B are also connected to system ground at node 42.
- the circuit network comprised of the amplifiers 40A, 40B and their respective feedback resistors 43A, 43B hold the input leads 41A, 41B to essentially the same voltage as system ground, thereby clamping the voltage at the measurement electrodes 14, 15 at about zero volts.
- this system ground is not connected electrically to the adjacent piping system and hence to the process fluid.
- a signal current proportional to the rate of change of the induced voltage in the form of a 7.5 Hz square wave thus flows from the measurement electrodes through the respective feedback resistors 43A, 438 of the amplifiers 40A, 40B.
- Fig. 6D shows this wave form which has been gated by timing signals from the sequence controller 26 to permit sampling of the current ' signal about the midpoint of the flow signal measurement cycle.
- a voltage source 50 is interposed between the system ground of the conducting shell 60 and the conducting fluid- contact portion of the adjacent flow pipe 100.
- the flow tube and adjacent flow pipe are shown in exploded view without the corresponding flanged ends.
- the voltage differential between system ground and the process fluid is maintained by injecting through an integrating amplifier 49 a square wave voltage from the sequence controller 26 at one-half the frequency of the flow signal square wave voltage, i.e., 3.75 Hz. (See Fig. 6E.) This produces a triangle wave voltage of corresponding frequency between the two grounds which causes a 3.75 Hz square wave current proportional to the value of the capacitance presented by the measurement electrodes 14, 15 to flow from each electrode to the nodes 44A, 44B.
- the output of both input amplifiers contains two composite wave forms-that is two square wave voltages, one at 3.75 Hz corresponding to the current flowing from the electrodes for measuring the capacitance thereof and one at twice that frequency corresponding to the induced flow signal.
- the various voltages as shown by the wave forms of Figs. 6A-G are non-interactive and may be effectively separated from one another to produce the desired outputs. For example, the 7.5 Hz flow signal voltages cancel from the composite after being dropped across equal-valued summing resistors 46A, 46B.
- a summing amplifier 47 receives the 3.75 Hz voltage to yield at the output of a differential amplifier 48 a signal primarily indicative of the electrode capacitance. Similarly tracing the signal flow from the measurement electrodes through the amplifier network 45 reveals that the capacitance-measuring voltage signal is cancelled from the composite to yield a flow related signal a the output of the amplifier 45.
- Both the capacitance and flow signals are fed to other circuitry (not shown) that simply takes the ratio of the magnitude of these two square-wave voltages to yield a measurement signal proportional to the flow velocity.
- This signal may be utilized in a variety of ways; for example, it can be converted to a corresponding current signal to produce a 4-20 mA control signal for an on-line controller. Or, as depicted in Fig. 4, the measurement signal may undergo digital conversion (e.g., by a voltage-to-frequency converter) to provide a suitable signal for indication on the display unit 25.
- a flow tube 70 is shown which differs from that shown in Fig. 2A in that an outer metal shell 71 surrounds an inner flow tube 73 whose assembly is similar to that one in Fig. 2A.
- the original flow tube 12 can be thought of as having another, larger diameter metal tube concentrically positioned about itself.
- an insulating layer 72 provides electrical isolation.
- This outer shell 71 can be electrically connected to adjacent pipework while the conducting portion of the inner tube 73 is connected to system ground as discussed in connection with the Fig. 5 arrangement thereby maintaining all exposed piping at the same potential. This provides safety advantages in certain situations.
- either the inner tube 73 or the outer shell 71 may be the source of mechanical strength for the confinement of the fluid, in which case the other cyclinder functions merely as an electrical shield.
- Fig. 8 shows another variation wherein a flow tube 80 is made of a dielectric material 81 rugged enough to provide the required strength for fluid containment.
- a metal shell 82 surrounds the dielectric material. Because the shell functions primarily as an electrical shield, it can be a relatively thin metallic strip located only in the vicinity of the electrodes, nor need this strip be a continuous band around the periphery of the flow tube 80.
- the shell can be enclosed by a field cover (not show) which may or may not be connected to the adjacent pipework.
- This embodiment is economical to manufacture as a substantial amount of metal has been removed from the primary element design. In operation, this embodiment would parallel that of the preferred embodiment in that the shell 82 surrounding the electrodes is at system ground while the adjacent piping is not.
- the wave forms and frequencies disclosed are merely exemplary, as it would be possible with minor circuitry changes to use other wave forms and frequencies.
- the low frequency operation of the present system has been desribed in terms of U.S. standards (i.e., 60 Hz), but the principles set forth above are applicable to a wide range of frequencies. It is contemplated the system will have an operating range of from 1 Hz to 100 Hz.
- the electrode capacitance measurement has been described throughout as occurring concurrently with the flow signal measurement. However, as will be appreciated the capacitance measurement can be made at various intervals (even randomly) provided that the intervals between such measurements are short enough so that no significant deviation in capacitance occurs that would introduce unacceptable errors in the flow signal measurement.
- a microprocessor could be employed in the system to enhance signal processing capabilities.
- the measured signals (capacitance and flow) can be digitized at any convenient point beyond the low-impedance preamplifier network.
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